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- Russian officers share their mail at a table in their room at the officers' prison camp at Bischofswerda. They have received letters, postcards, and newspapers from home after they have passed through the censors' inspection.
- Date Created:
- 1916-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- French, British, and Russian prisoners of war pack the YMCA reading room in Goettingen. To maximize space, there are no tables to make sure that as many prisoners as possible can be accommodated in the reading room.
- Date Created:
- 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- This color drawing depicts Sonia, the heroine in the play "Kill that Bug!" Sonia was a British POW at Kedos and starred in the lead role.
- Date Created:
- 1918-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- This was the interior of the hospital ward at Wieselburg, a barrack which featured freshly-made beds, extra blankets, and a clean environment. The Austrian medical staff stands in the middle of the photograph and another ward can be seen through the door in the back of the room.
- Date Created:
- 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- The War Prisoners' Aid Headquarters in Vienna sent these traveling recreation chests to labor detachments to make sure that prisoners detached from their parent camps still benefited from the Red Triangle social program. Each wooden box contained reading material (books, magazines, spiritual tracts, and hymnals), musical instruments (accordions and harmonicas), games (dominoes and Mensch aergere dich nicht), and stationery. Each chest was secured with a lock and chain to prevent the loss of materials.
- Date Created:
- 1918-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- The student annual of the Western State Teachers College • Administration • Classes • Activities • Athletics
- Date Created:
- 1928-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- Street Scenes - Service Stations. Exterior view of Kalamazoo Plating Works, 436 W. Willard. Client: Kalamazoo Plating Works (Photographic Negative)
- Date Created:
- 1944-10-09T00:00:00Z
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- Societies - Service Clubs. Education. Unidentified group of 25 men and one woman standing in front of the Bernhard Student Center, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI. Client: Western Michigan University (Photographic Negative)
- Date Created:
- 1958-07-01T00:00:00Z
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- 2 photos in event - 7832
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- A man using rail-track laying and maintenance equipment to align a railroad tie.
- Date Created:
- 1959-12-05T00:00:00Z
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- 4 photos in event - 8281
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- Order from Aimeri du Cros (Aymericus de Croso), knight, seneschal of the King of France, Charles IV (the Fair), for Périgord and Quercy, to the king’s bailiff of Maurencx (Maurens, canton Villamblard, Dordogne) to come with armed men and horses to Lausertam (Lauzerte, Tarn et Garonne, SW of Cahors) on Thursday, March 15th, next to “Montedome” (Mont de Domme, canton Domme, Dordogne). Dated 25 February 1324., 1 column of 9 lines, unruled, and written in brown ink in French documentary script., and France, 1323-1324. Guyenne and Gascony were held by the English on terms of homage to the French kings, but were confiscated by the kings of France in 1296 and 1324 on the ground of failure of feudal duties. Thus 1324-5 have been described as those “two years of war” (Chaplais, 80). Edward III acquired full sovereignty of Guyenne in 1360; France regained it in 1451. The territory of Guyenne, a Duchy stretching from the Charente to the Pyrenees, is now represented by the départment of Gironde, Lot et Garonne, most of Tarn et Garonne, etc. Note that the pencil note at bottom right is characteristic of documents once in the important but little known Fuller collection (Quaritch, preface to item 1; A Mace).
- Date Created:
- 1324-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries